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PAST PERFECT SIMPLE

The past perfect tense is utilized to describe an event that occurred before another past action. It is constructed with "had" followed by the past participle of the verb. In forming questions, the subject and "

PAST PERFECT SIMPLE

PAST PERFECT SIMPLE

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DIFfERENCES BETWEEN PPS AND PS

ACTIVITIES

EXERCISE 3
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 1

IMAGENES

FORM AND USE

USE
We use past perfect to talk about something that happened before another action in the past
FORM
EXAMPLES

INTERROGATIVE: Had they arrived?

NEGATIVE: She hadn't asked

AFIRMATIVE: She had given

The past perfect is formed using had + past participle. Questions are indicated by inverting the subject and had. Negatives are made with not. SUJETO + HAD + PAST PARTICIPLE

CONTRAST BETWEEN PAST PERFECT SIMPLE AND PASTE SIMPLE

These two tenses are both used to talk about things that happened in the past. However we use past perfect to talk about something that happened before another action in the past, which is usually expressed by the past simple. For example: "I had already eaten my dinner when he called."